{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including tailwind-animate-v4.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10073 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-10073 is a malicious package in tailwind-animate-v4, published on 9 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10073 is a malicious package: tailwind-animate-v4 (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10073/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10073/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10073","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10073/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10073","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-rh36-94jf-9566"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package presents itself as a Tailwind CSS animation plugin and reproduces the legitimate tailwindcss-animate source (including its original author metadata) verbatim in index.js. A long whitespace run at the end of the file visually hides an appended obfuscated loader. On require(), the loader permutation-decodes a string to recover the identifiers 'require', 'module', '__dirname', '__filename', and 'undefined', re-installs them on the global object, then resolves the Function constructor indirectly via a String prototype method whose name is produced by string permutation ('constructor'). It then uses Function() to compile and immediately invoke a large opaque decoded payload (uwg(4261)). This is dynamic execution of an obfuscated blob at library-load time, delivered under a name that mimics the widely used tailwindcss-animate package. Any project that adds this dependency and requires it will execute the hidden payload in the developer/build process, with full access to environment variables, filesystem, and network.\n\nAny computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in tailwind-animate-v4 (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10073","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"tailwind-animate-v4","purl":"pkg:npm/tailwind-animate-v4","source":"MAL-2026-10073"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-09","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10073/"}